Free Miscellaneous Topics in Chicago
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Your Brain is Lying to You!
Roger Breisch, Speaker / Provocateur, Dancing With Chaos
Request This Free SpeechIn her highly acclaimed book, Being Wrong: Adventures in the margin of error, Kathryn Schulz says “As far as we know, then, error is uniquely ours. Our fallibility is what keeps us suspended between the kingdom of lessor animals and the kingdom of God.” MORE >
How might we be different in the world if we knew a large percentage of what we think we “know” is wrong… or at least off kilter? If we entered the world each day with the understanding there is much to learn and revise about our current thinking, might we be more curious? Better listeners?The human brain is a pattern making marvel, but the stories we make up based on those patterns are often wrong. We do this every day when we make up stories about others based on very little knowledge of who they really are. Might we find people are far more interesting than our first impressions leave us to believe?
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Changing the Course of Human History
Roger Breisch, Speaker / Provocateur, Dancing With Chaos
Request This Free SpeechNeil Postman once said, "Children are the living messages we send to a future we will not see." When we change the life of a young person, we change the course of human history.
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Elder Mediation
Karin McNicholas & Dennis McNicholas, Mediation Services
Request This Free SpeechMediation allows families to explore mutually acceptable solutions to difficult problems with parents and elderly relatives. It encourages creative problem solving within the private family setting rather than relying upon the legal system to resolve these issues.